Alfandary, Isabelle

Cage through Thoreau : à la recherche de la musique dans la langue - 2016.


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This article intends to describe and explore what John Cage’s “writing through” technique entails on both a poetic and aesthetic level. By revisiting H.D. Thoreau’s  Journal according to a series of elaborate procedures, Cage attempts to access an unknown and barred dimension in language : music.